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Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne has not ruled out forming a coalition with another political party to stay in power.

During a campaign stop at a Catholic school in Markham Wednesday, Wynne was repeatedly asked if she would be open to a coalition government.

“I’m not ruling out anything ... I’ve demonstrated how I can work in a minority parliament,” Wynne said. “That’s how I would continue to work in a minority parliament if that is what the people of Ontario decide.”

The Ontario Liberals and NDP formed a coalition to defeat Frank Miller’s minority PC government in 1985.

Will Stewart, a spokesperson for Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak, said he’s not surprised that Wynne has left open the possibility of a coalition government.

“We always figured this was her hidden plan anyway,” he said.

The Liberals and NDP are running on similar platforms, including the view that every public sector job is sacred, he said.

The PCs have no natural bridge to the other two parties, as their plan calls for significant change to the status quo, Stewart said.

Wynne’s Liberals and Andrea Horwath’s NDP have found enough common ground in the past to keep the minority Liberal government afloat but the NDP balked at supporting the latest budget released May 1.

Horwath said she would not speculate on what form of government the voters might send to Queen’s Park on June 12.

“I don’t think it does anybody justice to presuppose what their decision might be,” Horwath said.

There are still a couple of weeks left in the provincial campaign, and Ontarians will have a very important decision to make, she said.

“They can decide to support a Liberal Party that has broken promises, that has been mired in scandal, that has wasted their dollars, that frankly has behaved in a way that is very corrupt. They can support a Hudak party that has really got a plan that doesn’t make much sense at all, in tough economic times throwing 100,000 families to the curb,” she said. “Or they can look at a New Democrat Party that has worked very hard to get results for them.”

Abacus Data polling conducted over the past two weeks indicates that barring a change in Ontarians’ outlook, which is possible with a high number of undecided voters, the province will see another minority government.

The most recent polling has the Liberals three points ahead of the PCs among likely voters.